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Sighs of Spain

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Sighs of Spain
Directed byBenito Perojo
Written byAntonio Quintero
Benito Perojo
Roberto de Ribón
Produced byHelmut Beck-Herzog
StarringMiguel Ligero
Estrellita Castro
Roberto Rey
CinematographyGeorg Bruckbauer
Edited byWilly Zeyn
Music byJuan Mostazo
Walter Sieber
Production
company
Hispano Filmproduktion
Distributed byUfilms
Release date
  • 16 October 1939 (1939-10-16)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesGermany
Spain
LanguageSpanish

Sighs of Spain or Spanish Sighs (Spanish: Suspiros de España) is a 1939 German-Spanish comedy film directed by Benito Perojo and starring Miguel Ligero, Estrellita Castro and Roberto Rey.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. It was one of five co-productions between Nationalist Spain and Nazi Germany during the late 1930s.[2] [3] It is takes its title from the 1903 pasodoble by Antonio Álvarez Alonso. In 1955 it was remade as a Spanish musical film Sighs of Triana.

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References

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  1. ^ Peiró p.208
  2. ^ Pavlović p.44-45
  3. ^ Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema p.47

Bibliography

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  • De España, Rafael. Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Pavlović, Tatjana (ed.) 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
  • Peiró, Eva Woods. White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musical Films. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
  • Winkel, Roel Vande & Welch, David. Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
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